Laundry-register.



A. DE TULLIO.

LAUNDRY REGSTER.

APPLICATION FILED `IuLII 9. 19u.

1,266,426. Patented May14,191&

- BY @M 5m ATTORNEY an oblong rectangular plate or board which UNITEDsTATEs PATENT oEEIcE.

ANGELO DE T ULLIfo, or ALBUQUERQUE, NEW Mexico.

LAUNDRY-REGISTER.

This invention is an 'improved laundry register for use in hotels,apartments, dwelll ing houses and the like for keeping a record of thearticles placed in the laundry by any inmate or guest or from any roomor suite of rooms, and also for keeping a record of dates in which thearticles are sent to the laundry, when the articles are delivered, andwhen the articles are to be returned, and without the necessity ofmaking entries with pencil or pen, on paper, or for writing a list ofthe articles.

The invention consists in a register having an individual designatingcolumn, articles designating and number designating columns, saidindividual designating column and said number designating columns havingopenings, and said openings of the number designating columns beingarranged in line with the names of the articles 1n the articles columnand the plugsfor insertion in said openings, as hereinafter describedand claimed.

In the accompanying drawin sz- Figure 1 is a plan of a laun ry registerconstructed and arranged in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 is a detailed transverse sectional view of the same. f

My improved laundry register comprises in practice may` be made ofcardboard and is usually about three-sixteenths of an inch thick, and isof suitable length and width.

At thehead the register isdesignated as such and is also provided with aspace 1 for the name of a hotel, .apartment house, or family, and alsohas an eyelet 2 to enable the register to` be hung on a nail or the likeThe register has a room or individual desi nating column 3 divided intoconsecutively numbered spaces 4 and each `nurnbered space having anopening 5. article designating column 6 is provided next to the column 3and is divided into spaces 7 each of which' has the name of some articleSpecification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 14, 1918.

' of Wear or the like and such as are sent to the laundry. A dozensdesignatin column 8 is next to column 6 and is provi' ed with a seriesof sub-columns 9 which are consecutively numberedat the top as at 10 andeach of which has spaces 11 opposite the spaces 7 and in line therewithand provided with openings 12.

A number designating column 13 for fractions of dozens, or numbers lessthan a dozen, is provided next to column 8 and is divided intosub-columns 14 which are conseciltively numbered at the top as at 15 andwhich provide spaces 16 which aline with the spaces 7 and 11, each space16 having an opening 17.

A months date column 18 is provided next the column 13 and hasconsecutively numbered spaces 19 for the days of the month. A delivereddate column 20 is next to the column 18 and has spaces 21 which alineand correspond with the date spaces 19 and each of which has an opening22. A return date column 23 is next to column 20 and has spaces 24 whichaline and correspond with the spaces 19 and 21 and each of which spaces24 has an opening 25.

At the sides and partly across the botL tom of the register are seriesofop'enings 27 which correspond in size'and shape with the openings 5,12, 17, 22 and 25 and for the reception of indicating plugs 28, whichare preferablymade of rubber and which can be removed Jfrom the openings27 and inserted as may be required in the openings 5, 12, 17 19, 22 or25 to indicate each individual or p erson who sends articles to thelaundry, the names and dozens or fraction of a dozen of each article sosent by him, and to also indicate the date when the articles are sent tothe laundry and the date on which the same are to be returned. Hence myimproved register enables a laundrylist to be kept without writing thesame and without the necessity of making entries with pencil lfor pen.The plugs. mayy be changed as required, and as will be understood, fromtime to'time to cause the register to preserve a correct account of alllaundry transaction.

At the center of the bottom'is a space 26 for a calendar and at oppositesides of said space 26 are spaces 27 which are inscribed withinstructions asto the use of the register.

Having thus described my invention, I claim The herein described laundryregister comprising a plate or board having aroom designating column, anarticles designating Icolumns, number designating columns, a month datecolumn, and delivery andreturn date columns, said individual designatingand said delivery and return date columns having openings, the saidopenings of the number designating Columns being arranged in line Withthe names of the articles in the articles column, and said delivery andreturn date columns also havmg openings, said month date column havingday indicating 15 numbers opposite the openings of the de livery andreturn date columns, and plugs i openings for the reception of the plugsWhen 20 the latter are not in use.

In testimony whereof 1 aiix my signature.

ANGELO DE TULLIO.

